intro to ravelry

INTRO TO RAVELRYWhere knitters meet online

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AGENDA

➤ What’s Ravelry? Why should I care?

➤ General tour of Ravelry features

➤ How to upload photos

➤ How to use the forums

➤ The Guild’s Ravelry presence

➤ Knitters Guild NSW Group

➤ Inner City Group

➤ ICKG Library

➤ Tips and tricks from your fellow knitters

WHAT’S RAVELRY ALL ABOUT ANYWAY?

RAVELRY HISTORY

YOU’VE GOT A RAVELRY ACCOUNT

Now what?

(If not - http://goo.gl/GEP6vC)

YOUR PATTERNS MAKE RAVELRY BETTER

ADDING PHOTOS

FLICKR

➤ http://www.flickr.com

➤ Free to join and upload up to 1TB of photos (that’s 500,000!)

➤ Desktop and mobile apps for uploading

➤ Easily links to your Ravelry account!

PHOTOBUCKET

➤ http://photobucket.com/

➤ Free to join and upload up to 2GB of photos

➤ Desktop and mobile apps for uploading (as well as connecting to Facebook)

➤ Ability to print your photos on lots of things

➤ Easily links to your Rav account!

“SLURP FROM WEB”

“UPLOAD FROM COMPUTER”

HOW TO GET AN IMAGE URL

“UPLOAD FROM INSTAGRAM”

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

m.ravelry.com Ravulous - Android Wooly - iOS Yarma - iOS

REORDERING, RE-CENTERING, AND REMOVING

➤ Click and drag photos to reorder them

➤ Click and drag the icon to re-center

➤ Click the icon to remove an image

ORGANISING YOUR PROJECTS

HANDSPUN & STASH

FAVOURITES

FRIENDS AND THEIR ACTIVITY

LIBRARY

LIBRARY - ADDING A BOOK OR PATTERN

LIBRARY - RAVELRY PATTERNS

BUT HOW DO WE FIND PATTERNS?

YOUR PATTERN VIEWING HISTORY

➤ Linked from Patterns page - http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/history

➤ Shows every pattern you looked at and when

➤ Searchable!

NOW FOR SOME YARN

PEOPLE… 6 MILLION OF ‘EM

PROFILE PAGE

FORUMS

USEFUL STUFF IN SETTINGS

HOW TO START A TOPIC

HOW TO REPLY TO A TOPIC

POSTING A PHOTO FROM THE WEB

➤ Click on the icon

➤ Paste in a URL from a blog or some other website

➤ Customise the “Image title” text and leave the rest

POSTING A PHOTO FROM A PROJECT OR STASH

➤ Click on the icon

➤ Select the second option - “Use a project or stash photo”

➤ Choose a photo and confirm

➤ Leave the text!

POSTING A PHOTO BY UPLOAD OR EMAIL - EXTRAS

MAGIC LINKS - HOW TO DO IT

MAGIC LINKS - THE END RESULT

OTHER TEXT EDITOR FUNCTIONS

1. Make things bold or italics

2. Link to websites

3. Quote text for a reply

4. Add an image

5. Add a webcam image

6. Add a video

7. Create a numbered list

8. Create a bulleted list

9. Create a heading

10.Undo and redo

11.Preview your post

12.Help!

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QUICK SEARCH

GROUPS

OFFICIAL KNITTERS GUILD NSW GROUP

FINDING THE INNER CITY GROUP

THE INNER CITY GROUP LIBRARY

THE INNER CITY GROUP LIBRARY - VIEWING THE BOOKS

THE INNER CITY GROUP - PAGES

TIPS & TRICKS AND QUESTIONS

THANK YOU!- Kris and Stefanie

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